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Hugo Barra, Product Management Director of Android, announced a few outstanding numbers at Google I/0:

During their Q1 earnings call, Google’s Jeff Huber provided said the number of devices activated daily equals some 350,000 handsets. And with all of these activations the number of app installs from the Android Market have increased by 50 percent since the final quarter of 2010. App installs now sit at 3 billion.

Data visualization of global Android device activations from October 2008 to January 2011.

As of today, February 15th, there are 350,000 new Android phones being activated on a daily basis.  That equates to more than 127 million Android devices a year at the current rate.  These activations come from 170 compatible devices, 27 OEMs, and 169 carriers spread across 69 countries.

The official tally now sits at 150,000 applications, more than three times what it was just nine months ago.

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